Asia Bangladeshi queer utopia: How activists are reclaiming local narratives to empower the community November 21, 2019 0 Image Credit: UK celebrates ruling on Section 377 by British High Commission / Flickr; Licence: CC BY NC ND 2.0 Written by Ibtisam Ahmed. The current…
Article 370 Homonationalism, pinkwashing and the question of (queer) Kashmir August 28, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee. Image Credit: Rajarshi MITRA/ Dal Lake Dreams, Flickr; Licence: CC By 2.0 Following the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution of…
Gender India and LGBTQ rights at the United Nations after the demise of Section 377 July 16, 2019 0 Written by Sohini Chatterjee Image Credit: British High Commission, New Delhi/Flicker; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 When in 2003, Brazil – for the first time in the…
Identity politics Academic Theory and Practice – The Queer Body in Online Discourse July 20, 2018 0 Written by Ping-Hsuan Wang. Taiwan LGBT Pride, held on the last Saturday in October in Taipei, has been growing rapidly in the past decade. Last year,…
India Why the Centre wants Supreme Court to stick only to sexual rights of LGBTQ community July 19, 2018 0 Written by Sruthisagar Yamunan The Centre on Wednesday urged the Supreme Court to confine itself to the question of sexual rights in the cases relating to…
China Chinese Cosmopolitanism and the Risk to Queer Identity July 17, 2018 0 The author requested to remain anonymous. During the release tour of his new book Queer Comrades, University of Nottingham academic Hongwei Bao was on the…
Identity politics Toward A Critical Study of Racialization – Notes from West Asia July 16, 2018 0 Written by Adriana Ahmad Qubaia-ova. Lebanon is quickly becoming a major site for the production of knowledge on gender and sexuality in the Middle East…
Identity politics Being LGBTQ+: Pride and Queer Festivals in India July 26, 2017 0 Written by Sumitra Sunder. Bangalore will soon celebrate its 10th Pride Festival or Namma Pride (Kannada word meaning Our) and Karnataka Queer Habba (Kannada word meaning…
Equality Alternative Narratives from New Indian Indie Cinema July 25, 2017 0 Written by Ashvin I Devasundaram. Socio-political states of flux and volatile national zeitgeists are often engines for inventive and interrogative cinematic forms. I view India’s…
Queer Asia Gay and Indian in Malaysia? Forget it June 29, 2017 2 Written by R. Jeyathurai Backus Fire up Grindr, Hornet or Jackd, among the other gay social applications in Malaysia, and notice a commonality. For the…
